Voices Through Time

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short was made with children from a nursery school in Mantua. Playing with colours, the children seem to conquer the world.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.

Emigrants from Calabria arrive at Milan station with their luggage, to make their home there or set off for other destinations. A man falls asleep in a waiting room. The travellers look lost and tired. The language of the others is henceforth incomprehensible; they are already foreigners in their own country.

Throughout the seasons, the work of a farmer in his vegetable garden, from the seed to its fruit.

Young peasants come together to dance in the evening. The girls arrive by bike; the boys get ready for them by doing their hair. The less shy amongst them begin to dance. Then, some of them go home, singing as they go, delighted to have obtained a promise. Others take advantage of the dark to make love.

Eternal and cyclical movement. A young woman crosses the seasons. With his 8mm Paillard, Piavoli starts his poetic journey with a drawn-out gaze on nature, which condenses passing time into a single shot.

2004 documentary by Franco Piavoli based on correspondence between poets Alessandro Parronchi and Umberto Bellintani.

Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.